Chomed metal instrument consisting of an outer casing with hexagonal finger supports and obturator with hexagonal head, both ending with an oblique cutting edge; plunger is a plain rod with a hexagonal head; both fit into a cardboard box.

Chomed metal instrument consisting of an outer casing with hexagonal finger supports and obturator with hexagonal head, both ending with an oblique cutting edge; plunger is a plain rod with a hexagonal head; both fit into a cardboard box.

Number Of Parts

4

Part Names

plunger - Length 12.0 cm

injector - Length 11.3 cm x Diam. 1.6 cm

box bottom

box lid

Provenance

Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Dr. J. G. Watt of Toronto.

This was used to inject pellets of desoxycorticosterone acetate into patients with Addison's disease; four or five pellets were injected at one time at 9-12-month intervals.

This treatment was replaced ca. 1960 by the drug prentasome. Dr. Watt was the pellet injector for all of the Toronto patients with Addison's disease between 1940 and 1960. He practised internal medicine and haematology at Toronto Western Hospital.

Used to make a blood sugar determination; the test solution and reagent are mixed in the bulb and during subsequent heating, the mixture is protected from aerial reoxidation by the decrease in surface area created by the constriction in the tube; Otto Knut Olof Folin (1867-1934) was an American biochemist; Dr. J. G. Watt practised internal medicine and haematology at the Toronto Western Hospital ca. 1950-1980s.

Engraved in ground space: "2"; below that and on the other side of the tube is engraved "K // EXAX // [illeg.] // 25 ml"

Permanent Location

Storage Room 0010

0010-F6-12

Dimension Notes

Length 22.9 cm x Diam. 1.9 cm

Copy Type

Original

Research Facts

Used to make a blood sugar determination; the test solution and reagent are mixed in the bulb and during subsequent heating, the mixture is protected from aerial reoxidation by the decrease in surface area created by the constriction in the tube; Otto Knut Olof Folin (1867-1934) was an American biochemist; Dr. J. G. Watt practised internal medicine and haematology at the Toronto Western Hospital ca. 1950-1980s.

A narrow glass 25-ml tube open at one end that has a very small lip; the tube narrows halfway down and ends with a bulb; there is a ground space near the open end for labelling.

Number Of Parts

1

Provenance

Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Dr. J. G. Watt of Toronto.

Dates

1950

1960

circa 1950-1960

Inscriptions

Engraved in ground space: "STAND"; below that and on the other side of the tube is engraved "K // EXAX [surrounded by an oval shape] // [triangle] // 25 ml"

Permanent Location

Storage Room 0010

0010-F6-12

Dimension Notes

Length 22.9 cm x Diam. 1.9 cm

Copy Type

Original

Research Facts

Used to make a blood sugar determination; the test solution and reagent are mixed in the bulb and during subsequent heating, the mixture is protected from aerial reoxidation by the decrease in surface area created by the constriction in the tube; Otto Knut Olof Folin (1867-1934) was an American biochemist; Dr. J. G. Watt practised internal medicine and haematology at the Toronto Western Hospital ca. 1950-1980s.

Donor says this was owned by his father, Dr. J.C. Watt, but the donor's name is on the label in the pouch, and this type of set was issued to medical naval personnel in WW II; Dr. J.G. Watt practised internal medicine and haematology at the Toronto Western Hospital ca. 1950-1980s.

The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Is an antiseptic, soothing and healing treatment for every form of itching skin diesease, eczema, salt rheum, itching, bleeding and protruding piles, pimples, black-heads, old sores, poisoned skin, hives, insect bites, inflamed eyelids, itch, barber's itch, sore feet and toes, chilblains and frostbites.

Patent medicines were advertised, and presumably consumed, with much vigour in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

In 1904, the original product line included Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, Liver Cure, Backache Plasters, Ointment, Catarrh Cure, Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine and Kidney-Liver Pills. Somewhere between 1924 and 1927, Dr. Chase's Liniment was added to this list, and Mouthwash was sold between 1927 and 1938. Paradol, a painkiller, was introduced in the 1950s and D.M.H Cough Syrups, Cold Tablets and Enerjets emerged in 1959. Though Backache Plasters were not advertised in the 1930s, they were included in the 1950s, so that the list of medicines sold by Dr. Chase's Medicine Company in 1959 contains all of the original product line with only minor modifications to a few of these products, as well as the new arrivals.

A wooden box contains a Bowles-type stethoscope; there is a chestpiece with a metal cover over the diaphragm, joined metal tubes, and a metal bracelet; all rubber connecting tubes are absent; box has a paper label on the inside of the lid.

A wooden box contains a Bowles-type stethoscope; there is a chestpiece with a metal cover over the diaphragm, joined metal tubes, and a metal bracelet; all rubber connecting tubes are absent; box has a paper label on the inside of the lid.

Number Of Parts

2

Part Names

stethoscope chest piece - Size: Diam. 4.5 cm

box - Size: Length 20.0 cm x Width 8.8 cm x Depth 6.0 cm

Provenance

Acquired from the Academy of Medicine; source: Mrs. C. Filkin; miscellaneous items from the practice of her late husband, Dr. Armstrong, surgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.